Scott Morrison was sworn in as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia on Aug. 24, replacing Malcolm Turnbull who was in the position for two years and 11 months. He won the Liberal leadership vote against Peter Dutton who originally challenged the prime minister seat.
Before his election, Morrison was the Treasurer and a senior member of Turnbull's team sitting at the Expenditure Review, National Security, Energy, and Infrastructure Committees of Cabinet since September 2015. The new prime minister's introduction to federal politics was in 2007 as the Member for Cook New South Wales.
In his first speech as prime minister, Morrison said that his priority is to address the drought that is currently crippling lives in New South Wales and Queensland states. Next in his agenda is to find ways to decrease electricity bills for the Australian consumers, especially that the country has significant deposits of coal and gas. He will soon look for ways to protect the universal health care system of the country.
People are fond of calling the new leader by his moniker "ScoMo." He was raised by his father, a police commander and local-government councilor, in Bronte, a beachside suburb in Sydney according to his bio in his official website.
Morrison has always been in the public eye being a child actor appearing in several TV ads. He got married at the age of 21 with his childhood sweetheart. They have two daughters at present.
He had also worked for Australia's tourism council and became the managing director of Tourism Australia between 2004 and 2006.
His most significant contribution to date was during his time as the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, stopping boats which were used by syndicate groups to smuggle people into Australia.
He had been a very effective Social Services Minister where he stopped the abuse of the welfare system, gave the people's pension back, and design jobs for families that will male child care and child support more convenient for the people.
As Treasurer, he managed to reduce the country's deficit, balance Australia's debt, maintain the country's impressive credit rating, require multinational companies to pay their dues and make Australia's banking system affordable. He was at the helm of bringing as much as 500,000 jobs into the country, reducing unemployment by 0.5 percent.
Former Prime Minister Turnbull was removed in his positions by own members of the Liberal Party because they were unhappy about his initiatives to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of Australia's coal exporters, The Washington Post reported. Turnbull particularly wanted to have laws that will protect plans of reducing the emissions as agreed upon during the U.N. climate conference in Paris in December 2015. Those opposing his move wanted for coal power stations to be built instead of receiving subsidies for solar, wind, and other renewable energy.
